Arts & Entertainment

Whether you’re looking to be entertained or enlightened, Gig Harbor Now covers fun and informational events taking place in the community.

The airshow will go on, though a bit belatedly

Apr 25, 2022 | By: Ed Friedrich

Wings & Wheels, normally held on the Fourth of July weekend at Tacoma Narrows Airport, has been bumped to Aug. 27-28.

Kayakers race in a previous Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup.

Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup gets back in the water this weekend

Apr 19, 2022 | By: Vince Dice

After a two-year hiatus, the Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup returns this weekend, April 23-24, to Skansie Brothers Park. The races draw hundreds of participants and spectators to the downtown waterfront, or they did before the 2020 and 2021 versions were canceled due to Covid-19. The event is a fundraiser for the Gig Harbor Canoe and

Gig Harbor Dance Team boogies away with a state title

Apr 14, 2022 | By: Christina T Henry

Members of the Gig Harbor High School Dance Team held hands and squeezed their eyes shut, praying, hoping. When second-place Shorewood was announced, “we started just immediately crying because we knew that the team that got second, it was an amazing team,” said Ashlyn Francisconi, Gig Harbor’s co-captain. Gut instinct told them they were about

Vandals deface Gig Harbor artist’s mural of support for Ukraine

Apr 07, 2022 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

A local artist’s gesture of support for the people of Ukraine — a mural of a sunflower set against the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag — was vandalized Wednesday night. The mural is on a wall outside Devoted Kiss café on North Harborview Drive and was painted by Hillarie Isackson, whose art studio

Schedules set for Summer Sounds, Friday Movie Night

Mar 29, 2022 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

The popular Summer Sounds at Skansie concert series will return starting June 28, the city of Gig Harbor announced this week. In addition to setting the schedule for the 10-week concert series, the city announced that the Friday Night Movie Series will move to Sehmel Homestead Park, in partnership with PenMet Parks. The first movie

Girl Scouts created a sign for the garden

Food and friendships grow at Wilkinson Farm community garden

Mar 22, 2022 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

The arrival of spring also heralds the arrival of gardening season. For gardeners who don’t have food-growing space at home, the community garden at Wilkinson Farm Park can be a godsend. The community garden includes 46 raised bed spaces that can be rented for $60 each per year. Each bed is 4-feet wide by 24-feet

Peninsula School District elementary school students will learn the importance of salmon in Northwest cultures and how to draw and paint their own fish after receiving a Creative Endeavor Grant from the Gig Harbor Arts Commission.

Gig Harbor Arts Commission awards grants to local groups

Mar 18, 2022 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

Ten local organizations have been awarded Creative Endeavor Grants by the Gig Harbor Arts Commission for projects ranging from band concerts to craft workshops to poetry readings. This year’s awards totaled $30,000 and will be approved by the City Council on March 28. Earning the grants were: Peninsula Hands on Art, a program that creates

The Shamrock'n the Harbor run/walk, a fundraiser for the Gig Harbor Senior Center, is scheduled for March 19, 2022.

St. Patrick’s Day-themed run raises money for Gig Harbor Senior Center

Mar 16, 2022 | By: Vince Dice

Looking for a way to extend your St. Patrick’s Day celebration, and exercise away some of that Irish stew and Guinness at the same time? The first Shamrock’n the Harbor family fun run and walk is Saturday, March 19, along the scenic Cushman Trail in Gig Harbor. The 5K/12K run is a fundraiser for the

Gig Harbor-based nonprofit helps assure that everyone can take the stage

Mar 07, 2022 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

Movies have the Oscars. Music has the Grammys. And web-based media have the Webby Awards, sponsored by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. On Feb. 28, IADAS presented its first-ever Anthem Awards, honoring people and organizations worldwide who are doing purpose- and mission-driven work that inspires others to take action in their own

‘Empty Bowls’ event helps fill hungry tummies

Feb 27, 2022 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

Artists donate the bowls, restaurants provide the soup for Altrusa fundraiser March 5 at Chapel Hill Church.

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